ARTICLE / CHILD DEVELOPEMENT
The technological
quick fix are backfiring
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on our
children
The frontal lobe controls conscious thought, emotions, and even a child’s personality
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educing children’s screen time
is a conundrum discerning
parents struggle with on a
daily basis. In the past we have
been motivated by a concern that our
children should exercise more, be
more curious about the world, talk to
family more and be protected from
inappropriate content.
Now, we have one more reason
to click the television off (despite
the crying child protesting in the
background): researchers have found
that too much television actually
harms your child’s brain structure.
In a study, that was published in
Cerebral Cortex last year, H